Railway Bridge (Nottingham)

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Carries the Radford - Trowell line over National Cycle Route 6 at Radford Bridge Road.

The line was built in 1875 to enable trains to and from the north to avoid the bottlenecks at Trent and Toton. It also served Wollaton Colliery (1873-1965). The substantial blue-brick abutments show that the bridge was once much wider. It once carried three more tracks, known as Babbington Sidings. From the 19th century until the building of Western Boulevard and the houses either side of it in the 1930s, a railway linking Babbington (Cinderhill) Colliery and the Nottingham Canal at a wharf immediately south of Wollaton Road crossed the Radford-Trowell main line at right angles on the level just east of where Western Boulevard bridge now stands. Babbington Sidings were connected to that line, but the connexion was out of use by the time the 1914-16 OS map was surveyed. -www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2510057

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1) www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2510057
2) www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2510079
3) www.geograph.org.uk/photo/911142